_Letters and Speeches_ (New York, 1900), i. p. 103.

[3] These three books were issued together in Latin under the title,
_Interiora Regni Dei_, in 1655 and in 1674, and in an English Collection
of Rous' Works under the title, _Treatises and Meditations_ (1657).

[4] _Mystical Marriage_, pp. 1-2.

[5] _Treatises and Meditations_, pp. 230-231.

[6] _Treatises and Meditations_, pp. 240 and 258.

[7] _Ibid._ p. 235.

[8] _The Heavenly Academy_, pp. 110-111.

[9] _Mystical Marriage_, p. 10.

[10] _Treatises and Meditations_, p. 496.

[11] _Mystical Marriage_, p. 10.

[12] _Ibid._ p. 16.

[13] _Ibid._ p. 193.

[14] Preface to _Mystical Marriage_.

[15] _Mystical Marriage_, p. 322.

[16] _The Heavenly Academy_, Preface, and _ibid._ p. 57.

[17] _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, i. p. 75.

[18] Clarendon, _History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars_ (Oxford, 1827),
p. 1581.

[19] Milton's sonnet _To Sir Henry Vane the Younger_.

[20] Burnet, _History of his Own Times_ (Airy ed.), i. p. 286.

[21] Pepys, _Diary_ (ed. by H. B. Wheatley, London, 1893), ii. p. 242.

[22] An Epistle to the Mystical Body of Christ on Earth. The lines which
I have put in italics in the text clearly show the "seeker"-attitude.

[23] See my _Quakers in the American Colonies_ (1911), pp. 1-25.

[24] In his _Retired Man's Meditations_ he speaks of "Christ's rule in
the legal conscience" and "Christ's rule in the evangelical conscience,"
by which he means to contrast a religion founded on external performances
or historical events, and a religion founded on _events transacted in the
soul of the man himself_.

[25] _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, i. p. 75.

[26] See Vane's _A Brief Answer to a certain Declaration made of the
Intent and Equity of the Order of Court_, etc., in Hutchinson's
Collection of Original Papers.

[27] Preface to Williams' _Bloudy Tenet_.

[28] _The Retired Man's Meditations_, p. 388. Italics mine.

[29] _Ibid._ Preface

[30] _Ibid._ chap. ii.

[31] _Ibid._ ii. chaps. iii. and iv. See also _A Pilgrimage into the
Land of Promise_, pp. 1-3.

[32] _A Pilgrimage into the Land of Promise_, pp. 51-52.

[33] _Ibid._ pp. 55-56.

[34] _Retired Man's Meditations_, chap. xxvi.

[35] _Journal of George Fox_ (Cambridge ed.), i. pp. 313-314.

[36] _Animadversions on Cressy's Answer to Stillingfleet_ (1673), p. 59.

[37] See _A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will_ (1675), pp. 31-32.

[38] _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, i. p.